Converting Zip to Tar - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I see on convertfiles.com you can can convert a zip file to tar. I have a stock rom zip that I need to flash by Odin once I get a usb jig to put my hard bricked Samsung Galaxy 4G LTE into download mode. If I converted it to tar would it work when I tried flashing it on Odin? Has anyone tried this before? I really need a stock rom tar and I don't see any for the Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE, just that stock rom zip.

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DHeavy2011 said:
I see on convertfiles.com you can can convert a zip file to tar. I have a stock rom zip that I need to flash by Odin once I get a usb jig to put my hard bricked Samsung Galaxy 4G LTE into download mode. If I converted it to tar would it work when I tried flashing it on Odin? Has anyone tried this before? I really need a stock rom tar and I don't see any for the Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G LTE, just that stock rom zip.
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not sure but i did a little xda-ing and all files here :
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Use Google, there is more than enough tutorials on how to flash using Odin/CWM/TWRP.
I did do a bit of Googling for you and found this, please do verify the MODEL of your phone is "SPH-L300" before using these files:
http://www.oudhitsquad.com/android/?dir=Samsung/SPH-L300/Stock
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IGGYVIP said:
not sure but i did a little xda-ing and all files here :
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I did a lot of Googling and stuff prior to everything but from my understanding just the Sprint version was the SPH-L300. I see SPH-L300 on the back of my Virgin Mobile Galaxy Victory with the battery out under model. I guess it doesn't matter what I flash that says SPH-L300. I still do want to test the zip to tar conversion though but if it doesn't work I'll have a tar. This is just under the assumption the usb jig does get me into download mode. But even after that I need a Windows computer to use for Odin. I can try the library

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DHeavy2011 said:
I did a lot of Googling and stuff prior to everything but from my understanding just the Sprint version was the SPH-L300. I see SPH-L300 on the back of my Virgin Mobile Galaxy Victory with the battery out under model. I guess it doesn't matter what I flash that says SPH-L300. I still do want to test the zip to tar conversion though but if it doesn't work I'll have a tar. This is just under the assumption the usb jig does get me into download mode. But even after that I need a Windows computer to use for Odin. I can try the library
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what platform you are on ?

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what platform you are on ?
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Unfortunately I only have a Macbook computer that works. I'm aware of JOdin but it hasn't ever got a PIT file for me. I've tried Heimdall and it also needs a PIT file if I remember right. I've also tried Odin on vmware with no luck, as well as converting Odin.exe to .app with Winebottler. I've even put the Samsung drivers into the same folder as the Winebottled Odin and it still doesn't recognize anything. If I can't get Odin working on a library computer I think I'm screwed. They block installations but Odin doesn't actually install anything so I have some hope it can run

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Bricked Galaxy Player 4

I bricked my galaxy player 4 by flashing sprint epic 4G touch rom on it. It was rooted and failed in Odin and now it doesn't boot at all. It just has a black screen. I'm able to enter download mode with Adam's resurrector and Windows in virtualbox. I flash back to stock and repartition and nothing. It still doesn't boot and I've tried button combos and everything and no results. Idk what to do anymore. I want to unbrick it. Please help me.
oh.I think you can't fix it by yourself.you should show it to professional repairment or warranty service.
Hmmmm.... I think you need to JIG your galaxy so download mode will work properly. Try finding a JIG for your Galaxy Player
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androidlover54 said:
I bricked my galaxy player 4 by flashing sprint epic 4G touch rom on it. It was rooted and failed in Odin and now it doesn't boot at all. It just has a black screen. I'm able to enter download mode with Adam's resurrector and Windows in virtualbox. I flash back to stock and repartition and nothing. It still doesn't boot and I've tried button combos and everything and no results. Idk what to do anymore. I want to unbrick it. Please help me.
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if you can go to Download mode, its good, i thinik, you have got partition table fault, so, you should get new partition table and its should back to life.
I vote partition problem. I had the same problem with my device and was able to resurrect it. As long as you can see download mode you can still bring it back. Try flashing the PIT file for your device, if that doesn't work you might have to repartition manually.
I don't know because I heard jigs don't work with hard bricks. I've tried repartitioning with the pit for my player and it doesn't work. I know that able to enter download mode with unbrickable resurrector is a good sign. I keep flashing stock and repartion and nothing. Idon't think its partition problem. It would've worked by now.
First, What in the world possessed you to try the ROM of not only a different device, but a different manufacture? You should count your blessing you where able to get download mode.
Second now that the scolding is over, go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531850 if that method doesn't recover your device then your up a creek without a paddle.
I've screwed my player up to the point where a PIT file won't recover it. No matter how many times I flashed a PIT or ROM/kernel, nothing would change.
You have to manually recreate the partitions through ADB.
Well I wanted to have the galaxy s2 rom on it and the international wouldn't work due to the physical home button. So I picked a us carrier such as sprint. That was actually my last method but heimdall kept saying error: failed to receive response, so I gave up. Yea that's what I heard to manually partition.
androidlover54 said:
Well I wanted to have the galaxy s2 rom on it and the international wouldn't work due to the physical home button. So I picked a us carrier such as sprint. That was actually my last method but heimdall kept saying error: failed to receive response, so I gave up. Yea that's what I heard to manually partition.
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This is a bit off topic, but if you really want a SGSII rom on your SGP, just contact a SGP dev and ask them to port it (with permission from the original dev of course ).
Sorry for the slightly off-topic post
Yea that was a slightly-off topic post.
So I was finally able to repartition and successfully flash kwipper's rooted rom for my player. I am able to access download mode via buttons. But it still doesn't power on or enter recovery mode. My pc recognizes as a storage device (YP-G1) when its plugged in.
androidlover54 said:
So I was finally able to repartition and successfully flash kwipper's rooted rom for my player. I am able to access download mode via buttons. But it still doesn't power on or enter recovery mode. My pc recognizes as a storage device (YP-G1) when its plugged in.
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Ok follow these instruction(don't forget to check re-partition)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531850
zaclimon said:
Ok follow these instruction(don't forget to check re-partition)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531850
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I've already tried that method with Heimdall and it gives error failure to receive response. I can't tar those files either because it fails with Odin.
androidlover54 said:
I've already tried that method with Heimdall and it gives error failure to receive response. I can't tar those files either because it fails with Odin.
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In what OS you are using heimdall?
zaclimon said:
In what OS you are using heimdall?
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Used Heimdall 1.3.2 and 1.3.1 on Windows 7 x64 and Ubuntu x64.
Zadig
did you use zadig to install the drivers
soultaker123 said:
did you use zadig to install the drivers
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Yes I did. It still didn't work so I gave up and sent it to Samsung. Fully working now and rooted stock rom. I'm thinking of flashing a custom rom. Is there a custom rom running ics that has wifi bluetooth gps and camera working?
androidlover54 said:
I bricked my galaxy player 4 by flashing sprint epic 4G touch rom on it. It was rooted and failed in Odin and now it doesn't boot at all. It just has a black screen. I'm able to enter download mode with Adam's resurrector and Windows in virtualbox. I flash back to stock and repartition and nothing. It still doesn't boot and I've tried button combos and everything and no results. Idk what to do anymore. I want to unbrick it. Please help me.
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first of all DO NOT repartition. second, have you tried flashing any other rom besides the stock
goldflame09 said:
first of all DO NOT repartition. second, have you tried flashing any other rom besides the stock
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No and i'm glad i don't have that problem anymore. Samsung solved it for me and repaired my player.

[Q] Odin won't detect rom

I've downloaded everything I need to unroot my phone and get back to stock rom (I need to send my phone to get repaired :/), but the problem is Odin won't detect my rom file, even though it is a .tar file, I didn't get it from sammobile because my phone carrier's mod wasn't on it, nor was the regular country rom. but I found the latest version, on another forum.
vonniel said:
I've downloaded everything I need to unroot my phone and get back to stock rom (I need to send my phone to get repaired :/), but the problem is Odin won't detect my rom file, even though it is a .tar file, I didn't get it from sammobile because my phone carrier's mod wasn't on it, nor was the regular country rom. but I found the latest version, on another forum.
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Odin needs tar.md5 files. You got that one?
vonniel said:
I've downloaded everything I need to unroot my phone and get back to stock rom (I need to send my phone to get repaired :/), but the problem is Odin won't detect my rom file, even though it is a .tar file, I didn't get it from sammobile because my phone carrier's mod wasn't on it, nor was the regular country rom. but I found the latest version, on another forum.
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Suggest ask other forum what's wrong with it .
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chrismast said:
Odin needs tar.md5 files. You got that one?
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Yup, .tar.md5

[Q] HELP ME UNBRICK PLEASE. I have been trying for over 6 hours & Nothing.

HELP, i've downloaded countless versions of the Stock recovery MD5 file and none are working to unbrick my Verizon galaxy S4 Firmware ver:*VRUAME7 (came stock with this firmware when purchased) and nothing is working. I was trying to install the recovery files from "sxtpdevelopers"
After successfully rooting using the microSD card method, I stupidly installed GooIM and then tried to install twrp.. I forgot that this version of firmware didn't have the bootloader unlocked yet and when the I booted into recovery it took me straight to " firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." *I already tried KIES recovery but it asks for serial number. THERE NO DAMN serial numbers anywhere on the phone, battery, or box that work. (including IMEI)
I then figured DOWNLOAD MODE worked so let me flash the stock odin file but I keep getting a FAIL installation every time.
FYI; I'm using parallels for mac and windows 8 to run odin. all the com ports are ok and I know there isn't a connection problem.
Any help would be appreciated. THANKS.*
galannyc said:
HELP, i've downloaded countless versions of the Stock recovery MD5 file and none are working to unbrick my Verizon galaxy S4 Firmware ver:*VRUAME7 (came stock with this firmware when purchased) and nothing is working. I was trying to install the recovery files from "sxtpdevelopers"
After successfully rooting using the microSD card method, I stupidly installed GooIM and then tried installing twrp.. I forgot that this version of firmware didn't have the bootloader unlocked yet and when the I booted into recovery it took me straight to " firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." *I already tried KIES recovery but it asks for serial number. THERE NO DAMN serial numbers anywhere on the phone, battery, or box that work. (including IMEI)
I then figured DOWNLOAD MODE worked so let me flash the stock odin file but I keep getting a FAIL installation every time.
FYI; I'm using parallels for mac and windows 8 to run odin. all the com ports are ok and I know there isn't a connection problem.
Any help would be appreciated. THANKS.*
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Yeah download mode IS the bootloader that is locked... sorry buddy but you either turn it in hoping they don't notice your screw up or use it as a paperweight
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galannyc said:
HELP, i've downloaded countless versions of the Stock recovery MD5 file and none are working to unbrick my Verizon galaxy S4 Firmware ver:*VRUAME7 (came stock with this firmware when purchased) and nothing is working. I was trying to install the recovery files from "sxtpdevelopers"
After successfully rooting using the microSD card method, I stupidly installed GooIM and then tried to install twrp.. I forgot that this version of firmware didn't have the bootloader unlocked yet and when the I booted into recovery it took me straight to " firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." *I already tried KIES recovery but it asks for serial number. THERE NO DAMN serial numbers anywhere on the phone, battery, or box that work. (including IMEI)
I then figured DOWNLOAD MODE worked so let me flash the stock odin file but I keep getting a FAIL installation every time.
FYI; I'm using parallels for mac and windows 8 to run odin. all the com ports are ok and I know there isn't a connection problem.
Any help would be appreciated. THANKS.*
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i brick mine two days ago and i had the same problem trying to restore it bak, i went to this site "droidviews(dot)com/how-to-install-latest-official-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-all-models/comment-page-4/" and i scroll down to where it said "Where to Download the Firmware for Galaxy S4?" right below that you should see SCH-I545 and it also have a Note to it, download that zip file "SCH-I545_VZW_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac.zip" and unzip it and u should be able to restore it bak to stock on Odin.
shadowshin said:
i brick mine two days ago and i had the same problem trying to restore it bak, i went to this site "droidviews(dot)com/how-to-install-latest-official-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-all-models/comment-page-4/" and i scroll down to where it said "Where to Download the Firmware for Galaxy S4?" right below that you should see SCH-I545 and it also have a Note to it, download that zip file "SCH-I545_VZW_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac.zip" and unzip it and u should be able to restore it bak to stock on Odin.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!.. The funny thing is I had downloaded "SCH-I545_VZW_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac.zip" already in my trials and tribulations. Probably the one I downloaded was corrupt because this one installed with a breeze. The one located on that site worked instantly. Now if we can just get that bootloader unlocked. I wish was a programming genius sometimes, I would unlock it; then take that ransom and donate it. Thanks again
Just wanted to say thanks. I was able to use that link + Odin3 to get my friend's Verizon Galaxy S4 back to normal. Best Buy and a Samsung rep at the store were unable to handle this lol
shadowshin said:
i brick mine two days ago and i had the same problem trying to restore it bak, i went to this site "droidviews(dot)com/how-to-install-latest-official-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-all-models/comment-page-4/" and i scroll down to where it said "where to download the firmware for galaxy s4?" right below that you should see sch-i545 and it also have a note to it, download that zip file "sch-i545_vzw_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac.zip" and unzip it and u should be able to restore it bak to stock on odin.
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oh my god ur a life saver
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Just a quick question, when installing that zip with ODIN, do you just use PDA?
Stijntje09 said:
Just a quick question, when installing that zip with ODIN, do you just use PDA?
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Yes. Make sure that auto reboot and reset time are checked. Load the zip/tar using PDA and let Odin do its thing.
thank it work with odin
shadowshin said:
i brick mine two days ago and i had the same problem trying to restore it bak, i went to this site "droidviews(dot)com/how-to-install-latest-official-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-all-models/comment-page-4/" and i scroll down to where it said "Where to Download the Firmware for Galaxy S4?" right below that you should see SCH-I545 and it also have a Note to it, download that zip file "SCH-I545_VZW_1_20130613171315_24s13crny1_fac.zip" and unzip it and u should be able to restore it bak to stock on Odin.
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I brick my verizon galaxy nexus and now thank to this im working agains thank

SGH-i527 stuck in recovery

I've got a SGH-i527 that when I turn it on it goes into Odin mode with the yellow triangle saying there was a problem with the upgrade and to connect it to Kies. Kies 3 will not work with it, and if I open Kies 2 it says it's connecting forever.
If I hold down volume and home button and start it up, and try to use Odin3 with AutoReboot and F. Reset Time check and flash I527UCUAMK2_I527ATTAMK2_I527UCUAMK2_HOME.tar.md5 it errors out and the device has SW REV CHECK FAIL : Fused 4 > Binary 3.
Someone help me out here?
smwoodward said:
I've got a SGH-i527 that when I turn it on it goes into Odin mode with the yellow triangle saying there was a problem with the upgrade and to connect it to Kies. Kies 3 will not work with it, and if I open Kies 2 it says it's connecting forever.
If I hold down volume and home button and start it up, and try to use Odin3 with AutoReboot and F. Reset Time check and flash I527UCUAMK2_I527ATTAMK2_I527UCUAMK2_HOME.tar.md5 it errors out and the device has SW REV CHECK FAIL : Fused 4 > Binary 3.
Someone help me out here?
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Here's a little more info that might help. I tried booting the device without holding the buttons just a second ago, and this is what is on the screen.
Image size too large! W:1080, H:1920
display image fail
Secure Fail: Kernel
Ok, so I think I'm having issues because I don't have the right firmware.
From what I've been reading is that there isn't a firmware released for the i527 for AT&T correct? Or can someone point me in the direction for that ROM.
smwoodward said:
Ok, so I think I'm having issues because I don't have the right firmware.
From what I've been reading is that there isn't a firmware released for the i527 for AT&T correct? Or can someone point me in the direction for that ROM.
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Have you figured anything out? Im having the same problem. Boot loop with same error when i try and run the MK2 firmware.
jaredb03 said:
Have you figured anything out? Im having the same problem. Boot loop with same error when i try and run the MK2 firmware.
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I haven't found anything. is there seriously no stock rom for this phone?
From what I'm gathering there is no TAR available for 442 so we can't flash in Odin. I don't know about you but I can't get to recovery either.
jaredb03 said:
From what I'm gathering there is no TAR available for 442 so we can't flash in Odin. I don't know about you but I can't get to recovery either.
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I can get it into download mode. How do you get it into recovery?
I'm having the same problem as well. I'm trying to fix my friends phone, their phone randomly shut off during a system update.
chapelfreak said:
I'm having the same problem as well. I'm trying to fix my friends phone, their phone randomly shut off during a system update.
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I have 2 megas in my shop right now that the same thing happened to them. Now they cannot be restored through ODIN and Kies says that the model/SN is incorrect.
I got the same problem as well tired to root it didn't work then tired to flash stock rom and I.got display image.to large can some give me right file for rogers Canada cell please and.what.do I need.checked.off in odin
I found these files by chance in the forums somewhere, i repair cellphones and was working on a work around for the replacement screens not working for the i527 At&t, these files will put fix your current softbrick and restore you back to 4.4.2
Using odin v3.09 place each file in each location Pit in Pit, BL in BL, etc. And let finish, everything should be back working once complete. I do not take credit for these files, as stated before i found these on XDA somewhere and cant remember exactly.
Pit
BL
CP
CSC
AP
can u give another link for those files, plz ? cannot download them from those links.
dslayer83 said:
I found these files by chance in the forums somewhere, i repair cellphones and was working on a work around for the replacement screens not working for the i527 At&t, these files will put fix your current softbrick and restore you back to 4.4.2
Using odin v3.09 place each file in each location Pit in Pit, BL in BL, etc. And let finish, everything should be back working once complete. I do not take credit for these files, as stated before i found these on XDA somewhere and cant remember exactly.
Pit
BL
CP
CSC
AP
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nicelys said:
can u give another link for those files, plz ? cannot download them from those links.
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The links work good at my end, but i have the i527m (canadian version) and i cannot use the files, but all the links work.
dslayer83 said:
I found these files by chance in the forums somewhere, i repair cellphones and was working on a work around for the replacement screens not working for the i527 At&t, these files will put fix your current softbrick and restore you back to 4.4.2
Using odin v3.09 place each file in each location Pit in Pit, BL in BL, etc. And let finish, everything should be back working once complete. I do not take credit for these files, as stated before i found these on XDA somewhere and cant remember exactly.
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This worked great for me, I had to leave off the PIT file though. :good:

[Q] trying to install stock OS for my Samsung Galaxy Light

I want to install stock OS for my Samsung Galaxy Light, but the system partition has been formatted. I can boot into Team Win Recovery Project, and I've downloaded the stock image tar.md5 file. Can Team Win restore OS from a tar.md5 file? Would ODIN work when Team Win Recovery Project is installed?
sgltm said:
I want to install stock OS for my Samsung Galaxy Light, but the system partition has been formatted. I can boot into Team Win Recovery Project, and I've downloaded the stock image tar.md5 file. Can Team Win restore OS from a tar.md5 file? Would ODIN work when Team Win Recovery Project is installed?
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Either would Work. Theoretically anyway. The for sure way is through of odin. Let me know if you have any problems.
It does require Odin
sgltm said:
I want to install stock OS for my Samsung Galaxy Light, but the system partition has been formatted. I can boot into Team Win Recovery Project, and I've downloaded the stock image tar.md5 file. Can Team Win restore OS from a tar.md5 file? Would ODIN work when Team Win Recovery Project is installed?
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Use odin for this. you have nice tutorials on youtube. :
Regards
Paget96
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Can someone point me to where the stock images are for the SG Light TMO addition
Hello do you have tmobile or metropcs? If you have metro then use sammobile but I dont know for tmobile
Hi, all! I'm having an issue with reformatting my girlfriend's SGH-T399. Hoping someone here can help.
Basically, her story is the phone tried to auto-update OTA and got stuck on "Upgrading apps (4/4)". Now, when rebooting, the phone is stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Light" logo screen.
The phone can boot into download mode, but can't boot into recovery (goes straight to download) which makes me think somehow the recovery partition was corrupted or some such issue. I've tried re-installing the stock firmware through Odin, but Odin always gets stuck on "Initializing", which is another problem I can't seem to find a fix for. I've also tried using Kies, but Kies always gets stuck at 0% when trying to upgrade the phone's firmware.
To be clear, I can get Odin and Kies to recognize the phone and start the formatting process, but neither progresses at all once the process actually begins. We'd be happy with getting stock firmware back, or with installing a custom rom such as LightWave, CM, anything. This is her only phone and we really need to get it up and running again. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
DaManWitDaPlan said:
Hi, all! I'm having an issue with reformatting my girlfriend's SGH-T399. Hoping someone here can help.
Basically, her story is the phone tried to auto-update OTA and got stuck on "Upgrading apps (4/4)". Now, when rebooting, the phone is stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Light" logo screen.
The phone can boot into download mode, but can't boot into recovery (goes straight to download) which makes me think somehow the recovery partition was corrupted or some such issue. I've tried re-installing the stock firmware through Odin, but Odin always gets stuck on "Initializing", which is another problem I can't seem to find a fix for. I've also tried using Kies, but Kies always gets stuck at 0% when trying to upgrade the phone's firmware.
To be clear, I can get Odin and Kies to recognize the phone and start the formatting process, but neither progresses at all once the process actually begins. We'd be happy with getting stock firmware back, or with installing a custom rom such as LightWave, CM, anything. This is her only phone and we really need to get it up and running again. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
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Hi this happened on my device too. Pretty much the same thing except I have sgh t399n. To fix flash TWRP through Odin as you did the first time, here https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934519351 and then flash any ROM. You could flash lightwave or CyanogenMod. If you had a backup use it. I downloaded someone else's backup but I can't find any backup for T-Mobile so just flash a ROM after flashing twrp.
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Hi this happened on my device too. Pretty much the same thing except I have sgh t399n. To fix flash TWRP through Odin as you did the first time, here https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934519351 and then flash any ROM. You could flash lightwave or CyanogenMod. If you had a backup use it. I downloaded someone else's backup but I can't find any backup for T-Mobile so just flash a ROM after flashing twrp.
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Hey! Thanks for the reply, but in my case, no dice Odin still hangs up on Initializing... Any other ideas?
DaManWitDaPlan said:
Hey! Thanks for the reply, but in my case, no dice Odin still hangs up on Initializing... Any other ideas?
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Try updating with kies
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Try updating with kies
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Hey, _PAG_. Yeah that was the first thing I tried. Like I said in my first post, Kies will download the phone's firmware and then get stuck at 0% during installation... any other ideas?
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Hey, _PAG_. Yeah that was the first thing I tried. Like I said in my first post, Kies will download the phone's firmware and then get stuck at 0% during installation... any other ideas?
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Wait but Odin doesn't work completely or just doesn't work with TWRP. Do you have it as run as administrator. Right click the Odin file then click run as administrator and allow. If that doesn't work do you have the Samsung drivers? And last do you have windows or mac?
http://shabbypenguin.com/?developer=Galaxy_Light_(SGH-T399)&folder=Stock
also read: http://androidforums.com/threads/guide-restore-your-galaxy-light-to-stock-mja.846767/
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_PAG_ said:
Wait but Odin doesn't work completely or just doesn't work with TWRP. Do you have it as run as administrator. Right click the Odin file then click run as administrator and allow. If that doesn't work do you have the Samsung drivers? And last do you have windows or mac?
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Odin has not worked for any package I've tried thus far. It always gets stuck on "Initializing". I am running as an administrator. As far as I know, all my samsung drivers are up to date. I'm running Windows 7 and both Windows and Odin recognize the device. I've tried this on 2 separate Win 7 pcs, so I don't believe the issue is with my setup but rather with the phone itself.
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http://shabbypenguin.com/?developer=Galaxy_Light_(SGH-T399)&folder=Stock
also read: http://androidforums.com/threads/guide-restore-your-galaxy-light-to-stock-mja.846767/
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Hey, AcreaperJB. That's the first guide I tried to follow. Like I said before, Odin works fine until "Initialization" at which point no other messages appear and Odin simply hangs. I've let it sit there for over an hour and there's no change.
Any other ideas?
DaManWitDaPlan said:
Odin has not worked for any package I've tried thus far. It always gets stuck on "Initializing". I am running as an administrator. As far as I know, all my samsung drivers are up to date. I'm running Windows 7 and both Windows and Odin recognize the device. I've tried this on 2 separate Win 7 pcs, so I don't believe the issue is with my setup but rather with the phone itself.
Hey, AcreaperJB. That's the first guide I tried to follow. Like I said before, Odin works fine until "Initialization" at which point no other messages appear and Odin simply hangs. I've let it sit there for over an hour and there's no change.
Any other ideas?
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Download a different version of Odin? usually helps
AcreaperJB said:
Download a different version of Odin? usually helps
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I've tried both 3.10.6 and 3.07, and I believe another version that was included with that SGH-T399 stock flashing guide... And I guess I should say as well, I tried the Kies solution with both Kies 2.6 and Kies 3 with no luck.
DaManWitDaPlan said:
I've tried both 3.10.6 and 3.07, and I believe another version that was included with that SGH-T399 stock flashing guide... And I guess I should say as well, I tried the Kies solution with both Kies 2.6 and Kies 3 with no luck.
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Maybe try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722082
And make a flashable zip from it?
AcreaperJB said:
Maybe try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722082
And make a flashable zip from it?
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If he uses this he can be free to use this http://androidforums.com/threads/samsung-galaxy-light-sgh-t399n-stock-rom.923545/
Its .zip not .tar.md5 so its a little different but you still extract it but don't rename.
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If he uses this he can be free to use this http://androidforums.com/threads/samsung-galaxy-light-sgh-t399n-stock-rom.923545/
Its .zip not .tar.md5 so its a little different but you still extract it but don't rename.
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Well he might as well use this then! also thanks extracting that firmware file on linux is a ****ing pain, this is easier to work with.
AcreaperJB said:
Well he might as well use this then! also thanks extracting that firmware file on linux is a ****ing pain, this is easier to work with.
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The only problem is that its for metro devices.

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